Despite the differences that lead to the divorce or the break-up of your personal relationship, as parents you have something in common: You both love your children. As the father, you have rights - i...
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The father of any child has a duty to support and protect that child. Paternity can exist within marriage or outside of marriage. It can exist by natural birth, by adoption or by assisted reproduction...
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Paternity is the legal and social acknowledgement of the parental relationship between a child and his or her father.
At common law, a child born during a marriage was presumed to be the husband's c...
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In 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was passed. It streamlined the legal process for paternity establishment and required a state form for voluntary paternity ...
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